Three Planned Parenthood patients challenged the decision, and a lower court judge blocked it. However, the state appealed, and 8th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the block on Wednesday, allowing the state to cut off funds to the abortion chain, The Hill reports.

The appeals court found that the patients didn’t have a federal right to sue to keep Planned Parenthood funded. It found that the Medicaid provision to offer quality health plans is directed only at the federal agency charged with approving state Medicaid plans.

It added that Planned Parenthood can appeal the state’s defunding decision.

The abortion chain’s Great Plains affiliate, which includes Arkansas, indicated that it may challenge the ruling.

“This is not over,” said local Planned Parenthood leader Raegan McDonald-Mosley in a statement. “We will do everything in our power to protect our patients’ access to birth control cancer screenings, and other lifesaving care.”

When the state defunded the abortion business in 2015, Gov. Asa Hutchinson expressed his outrage at the abortion chain’s barbaric practices.

“It is apparent that after the recent revelations on the actions of Planned Parenthood, that this organization does not represent the values of the people of our state and Arkansas is better served by terminating any and all existing contracts with them. This includes their affiliated organization, Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma,” Hutchinson said at the time.

In a statement, Hutchinson said he was ending their contracts after videos surfaced showing top Planned Parenthood executives haggling over the price of aborted babies’ body parts, admitting to altering abortion procedures to procure better organs for harvesting and casually discussing ways their doctors can “crush” unborn babies to obtain fully intact parts.